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Eryk Salvaggio
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Eryk Salvaggio writes Cybernetic Forests, a personal blog at mail.cyberneticforests.com about ai and culture. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Colors and Numbers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eryk Salvaggio's essays on AI, including a piece on "negative parallelism" in prose and one on models going rogue. One commenter said the negative parallelism essay changed how they think about the construct.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sifting Through the Techno-Cultural Debris.
Most-linked posts?
- Colors and Numbers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-26
- It's Not Just X. It's Y2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-31
- Models Don't Go Rogue2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-03
What Hacker News says?
I think they're both "negative parallelism" constructs. Either way, neither are new. The prose on https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-pos... changed how I think about it: the framework is useful for reasoning, not lazy writing. This bubbles.town submission's title could be light evidence of negative parallelism's utility. (Or, more likely, just the stochastic nature of what's popular when)
Comment linking /its-not-just-data-its-post-training/
on “Hacker News but for Independent Blogs”Submitted Models Don't Go Rogue as a story · 32 points
HN discussionhttps://mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-go-rogue/
Comment linking /models-dont-go-rogue/
on “Rogue Agent Framework”Submitted Colors and Numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Machines Don't Know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The System from Nowhere as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Not Just X. It's Y as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Computer Science Fetish as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Colors and Numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
